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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1910
Page
2
A collage of observations on 1910 ethics progress and society. Notes on Sarah Bernhardt, opportunity, the high cost of living, railways via telephone, and shifting drug profits. Mentions Albert the Good, Mrs Edison, and Dr Eliot with satirical asides about science and fame. Carnegie linked to a peace fund proposal. Dr Cook vs Peary pole claim ends with a jab.
A new Taft House hotel will be built opposite Yale University in New Haven. The piece muses on fame from Byron to modern politics and jokes about Kermit Roosevelt allegedly killing a bongo, described as a rare forest dweller with zebra-like hide and polo pony size. The bongo’s death is linked to an off year and pole reports.
Darius Ogden Mills, now departed, is celebrated for the Mills Hotels, a landmark of forward thinking philanthropy. The article extols the hotels as models of humane administration, admired by cities and benefactors, and urges industrial communities to learn from their founding principles and practice.
The piece urges Mills Hotel as a dignified low cost shelter for workers, not charity, and discusses hog prices at Chicago stockyards. It links high meat costs to domestic inflation and foreign trade, urging Secretary Wilson to investigate hog scarcity and promote pig pen replenishment to stabilize supplies and prices.
The article recounts Turner’s unpredictable sales tactics and sharp wit. He unsettles buyers with tricks and dismissive words, yet can quickly shift to graciousness, ultimately selling several paintings and earning five thousand pounds from a Birmingham dealer.
A quoted line from Yonkers Statesman notes that bees were unknown to Indians and that their sting was attributed to a trader. The piece suggests early sting lore and a connection to local history without further details.
The exchange questions a director's choice of tenor and suggests the singer might imitate a phonograph. The witty remark plays on sound and performance norms in operatic circles.
Oscar Sonneck reports in depth on The Star Spangled Banner and three other national songs revealing varied early accounts of the anthem’s origin. He cites firsthand notes from Key manuscripts showing textual variations and notes that supplant the familiar lore with uncertain origins. He also traces Yankee Doodle myths and notes widespread differences in Hail Columbia sheet music across editions.
Captain Evans of the British steamer Indrasamha reports Manila cigars scarce as ships rush supply to the United States amid tariff changes. Prices rose up to 30 percent in five days while Manila ships ship large consignments, including 2.5 million cigars on the Indrasamha.
A prisoner faces a judge in a courtroom where the judge cites a claim of stealing a doctor's watch. The prisoner replies that he needed a timepiece to follow an hourly prescription given at a free dispensary, joking he had no clock. The exchange highlights a humorous misinterpretation of the prescription.
A cranky crusader overestimates a scenery view cut by a billboard while noting a future big reception where a man wishes he were a woman. The fragment hints at satire on perception and gendered expectations within a social setting.
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